Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (21977)	11/27/2004 4:09:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81014

Re: Gus, I have to confess that all the writings about France and Algeria are lost on me because I know so little about what is clearly a very complex subject. No, it's not "very complex", it's rather a forgotten, repressed, and --as far as US opinion is concerned-- censored, subject. The French-Algerian precedent is important for several reasons, not the least being the fact that it allows critics of Israel like me to defuse and indeed debunk the anti-Semitic slur... I call Israel a Judeofascist pit but on the scale of colonial atrocities, Israelis pale when compared to French crimes in Algeria. Hence there's no point for me to demonize the Israelis or the Jews since they're not unique, they're no historical exception. Yet, to deny the Israeli state any exceptional destiny by putting it in perspective with the French is even more intolerable for its arch-Zionist supporters. The Zionist propaganda calls for isolating and singularizing the Israeli story: Israel, like the Jews, like the Jewish ordeal during WWII, like everything Jewish, must be UNIQUE and unduplicable lest its detractors be able to use History and colonialism as "lessons" to be heeded by Zionists.... Gus